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Uluburun: A Bronze Age Cargo Without a Confirmed Destination
Uluburun: A Bronze Age Cargo Without a Confirmed DestinationA ship sank off Turkey carrying copper and tin in the proportions used to make bronze, alongside raw glass and luxury goods. Its excavation revealed the scale of Late Bronze Age exchange. Edward and Lily explain how the cargo suggests possible buyers, why the tin's origin remains disputed, and what the surviving objects reveal about th…
Duration: 5:48
- late-bronze-age-shipwreck-excavation/- Uluburun Shipwreck — Bodrum Museum
- board set from the Uluburun shipwreck — Anatolian Studies, Payton, 1991
- nauticalarch.org
- penn.museum
- doi.org
- dansplain.xyz
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